Metal Atom Dynamics of Organotin Compounds

Abstract

Temperature-dependent Mössbauer effect spectroscopy has been used to elucidate the dynamics of the metal atom in a number of tin organometallics. The vibrational amplitudes so obtained have been compared to those extracted from single crystal X-ray diffraction data, and the differences between these two sets are rationalized.

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Keywords:

• Crystallographic U_i,j
• Mössbauer spectroscopy
• vibrational amplitudes

Acknowledgments

The authors are greatly indebted to Profs. Adams, Harder, Power, Russell, Saito, Sekiguchi, and Wesemann for generously providing the samples used in this study.